The Science of Consciousness – Taormina ITALY 2023 May 22*-27, 2023 Congress Center Taormina (Palazzo dei congressi)
The 29th annual The Science of Consciousness will return to Italy, to beautiful Taormina, on the island of Sicily, May 22-28, 2023, organized by Italian professors Riccardo Manzotti (IULM U), Antonio Chella (U Palermo) and Pietro Perconti (U Messina). TSC 2023 Taormina and co-organized by the Center for Consciousness Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, Stuart Hameroff, Director. The Taormina Science of Consciousness TSC-2023 is the 29th international interdisciplinary conference on fundamental questions and cutting-edge issues connected with consciousness.
The Science of Consciousness (TSC) is the largest and longest-running interdisciplinary conference emphasizing conceptual, empirical, cultural, and even artistic approaches to the study of consciousness. Held annually since 1994, the TSC conferences alternate between Tucson, Arizona, and various locations around the world. TSC conferences continue to bring together various perspectives, orientations, and methodologies within the study of consciousness. These include not only academic subjects within the sciences and humanities, but also contemplative and experiential traditions, culture and the arts. TSC aims to integrate viewpoints and bridge gaps, appreciates constructive controversy, and pursues the spirit of genuine dialogue. The format of the conference includes plenary sessions, in-depth workshops, concurrent presentations, poster sessions, and social events.
TSC Taormina 2023 will include themes such as neural underpinnings of consciousness, embodied cognition, integrated information approaches, free-energy principle, disjunctivism, hallucinations, dreams, intentionality, first-person experience, anesthetics, psychedelics, animal cognition, quantum biology, phantom limbs, dual-aspect monism, mind-object identity, bistable perception, religious studies, evolution, language, embodiment, time consciousness, neuroscience, phenomenology, and will offer a complete overview of the state of the art of consciousness science and studies The first overseas TSC Conference in 1995 was on the island of Ischia, near Naples, Italy, organized by Cloe Taddei-Ferretti. We are excited to be returning to Italy.
Taormina Program Links:
Conference website you can find the complete program, list of workshops*, extra events, abstracts of all presentations, the Consciousness Challenge, and much more.
TSC 2023 Taormina Program and Abstracts PDF
*A full day of workshops is planned for Monday May 22nd.
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The Science of Consciousness ('TSC') is an interdisciplinary conference emphasizing rigorous approaches to the study of consciousness and its place in the universe. Topical areas include neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, biology, quantum physics and quantum brain biology, cosmology, meditation, altered states, artificial intelligence/machine consciousness, the nature of reality, culture and experiential phenomenology. Held annually since 1994, the TSC conference is hosted by the Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona, and alternates yearly between Tucson, Arizona (even-numbered years) and other locations around the world (odd-numbered years) locations have included Italy, Denmark, Japan, Sweden, Czech Republic, Hungary, Hong Kong, India, Finland, San Diego and Switzerland.
TSC Tucson, Arizona is planned for April 22-26, 2024, and will celebrate the 30th annual Science of Consciousness conference. www.consciousness.arizona.edu
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